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Continue reading →: Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit | Build a Declarative Agent with an API Action
Agent Builder builds a declarative agent from instructions and knowledge sources such as SharePoint sites, uploaded files, or the web. It works well when the answer already lives in your documents. Agent Builder does not support custom API actions. A question like “What USD to INR rate applies to an invoice dated…
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Continue reading →: Copilot Studio | Add Co-owners to a Workflow
Workflows are the automation experience powered by the GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio. If you are new to this, refer my earlier post Copilot Studio Harnesses – Understanding the GitHub Copilot Harness to understand harnesses and Workflows. A Workflow is a solution aware cloud flow. It shows up under Cloud flows in the…
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Continue reading →: GitHub Copilot SDK | Getting started with a C# example
The GitHub Copilot SDK is the agent that powers GitHub Copilot CLI, published as a library. Instead of chatting with Copilot, your application calls it from code. In this post, lets use the SDK from a C# console app to repair a project that will not compile. What is the GitHub Copilot…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Build a Copilot Cowork Plugin – Skills and an MCP Connector
Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork can be extended with plugins. A plugin is a ZIP file that carries one or more skills, and an optional connector to a remote MCP server. This is a beginner level post. Lets build a small plugin from an empty folder, package it, upload it to Cowork,…
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Continue reading →: Power Apps Code | Build and deploy using the new ‘pa CLI’
Power Apps Code Apps let you host a React or Vite app inside Power Apps. The CLI you use to build them now groups its commands under pa. Lets build a code app from an empty folder, run it locally, and publish it to Power Platform. Prerequisites Make sure you have…
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Continue reading →: Ponytail | Make Your Coding Agent Write Less Code
Coding agents like GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and Cursor tend to write more code than a task needs. Say we ask the agent to add a date of birth field to a signup form. It may install a date picker library, write a wrapper component, and add a stylesheet.…
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Continue reading →: Copilot Studio | Build an Agent using Skills
Skills are the reusable building blocks of the GitHub Copilot harness. A skill is a Markdown file, and it can carry supporting files with it. In this post lets build a skill package from scratch, upload it to an agent, and watch the agent load it on demand. We will use a…
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Continue reading →: Copilot Studio – Call an agent from a workflow
In an earlier post we built an agent that calls a workflow. Now lets flip the direction and call an Agent from a Workflow. We will build both artifacts in the GitHub Copilot harness. If the harness term is new to you, start with Copilot Studio Harnesses. Note: We kept this demo simple on purpose. The goal…
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Continue reading →: Copilot Studio – Build an Agent to Automate Employee Onboarding
Lets build an employee onboarding solution in Copilot Studio, on the GitHub Copilot harness : I covered the harnesses in Copilot Studio Harnesses. Read that first if the term is new to you. What we are building Two pieces that work together. Why this scenario Onboarding process touches most of the components of the…
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Continue reading →: Copilot Studio ‘Chat’ – Build an Agent using Natural Language in the GitHub Copilot Harness
Copilot Studio ships a Chat tab in the GitHub Copilot harness. You describe the problem in plain English and Copilot Studio builds the agent or workflow for you. I covered the harnesses concept in an earlier post : Copilot Studio Harnesses In this post lets build an agent end to end from the Chat tab…
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